Splice-bar.



No. 801,142. PATENTED OCT. 3,1905. G. ERIGSON.

SPLICE BAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAB..24, 1905- UNITED sTArns PATENT @FFICE.

SPLICE-BAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed March 24, 1905. Serial No. 251,920.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAvn ERICSON, a citizen of, the United States,residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Splice-Bars,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rail-joints, and especially to an improvedform of splice-bar for connecting the meeting ends of a pair ofrail-sections; and has for its objects to produce a comparatively simpleinexpensive device of this character which will materiallv increase thestrength of the rails at the joint one whereby relative verticalmovement of the rail-sections, and consequent pounding of the ends ofthe latter, are obviated,and one wherein dust or other foreign matterentering the splice-bar at the point of meeting of the sections will befreely discharged.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of constructionand combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of arail-joint embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transversesection taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is adetail perspectiveview of a portion of one of the rail-sections. Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of the improved splice-bar.

Referring to the drawings, 1 1 designate the rail-sections adapted to bearranged in endwise relation and each comprising, as usual, a tread 2, aweb 3, and a base-flange 4:, the meeting ends of the rails beingcoincidently beveled in a transverse direction, as seen at 5 in Fig. 1,while the base-flanges 4 are terminated at a point suitably remote fromthe meeting ends of the sections 1 to produce extensions 6, as seen inFig. 3.

My improved splice-bar, as seen in Fig. 4, comprises a base-flange and apair of vertically -uprising side plates or webs 8, spaced transverselyto produce therehetween a socket or seat 9, there being formed at thelongitudinal center of the splice-bar at a point between the side plates8 and through the base-flange 7 averticalescape-opening 10, designed fora purpose which will more fully hereinafter appear.

In practice the splice-bar is secured in position upon a pair ofcross-ties 11 by means of spikes or other fastening devices entered intransverse notches or seats 12, formed at appropriate intervals in thebase-flange 7, and the webs of the projecting portions 6 of therail-sections are entered longitudinally and from opposite ends betweenthe side plates 8 of the splice-bar, the ends of the rail-sections beingadapted to meet at a point above and in register with the opening 10.After entrance of the ends of the rails into the seat 9 of thesplice-bar the rail-sections are secured to the ties by means of spikesor other fastening members designed to be received by seats or recesses13 at the edges of the flanges 4. and to the splice-bar by transversebolts 14,.entered through openings 15, formed through the side plates 8and adapted to register with slightly-elongated openings 16, formed inthe webs 3 of the rail-sections.

It is to be observed that under the foregoing construction the meetingends of the rails will be maintained in secure assemblage by thesplice-bar and that owing to the upper edges of the plates 8 bearingbeneath the head or tread 2 relative vertical movement of the rail ends,and consequent pounding of the latter, are wholly obviated, while at thesame time relative lateral movement of the railsections at the joint isprevented through engagement of the beveled ends 5. Further, it will benoted that expansion and retraction of the rail-sections are providedfor by the elongated bolt-receiving openings 16 and that dust or otherforeign matter which may enter into the seat 9 of the splice-bar betweenthe ends of the rail-sections will escape freely through the opening 10.

From the foregoing it is apparent thatI produce a simple inexpensivedevice which in practice will be strong and durable and one which willefficiently perform its functions to the attainment of the ends in view,it being understood that minor changes in the details herein set forthmay be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In arailjoint, a pair of rail-sections adapted for assembling in endwiserelation and each comprising a head, a web and a basefiange, thebase-flanges being terminated at a point remote from the meeting ends ofthe rails to produce extensions, a splice-bar comprising a base-flangeand a pair of side plates spaced to produce a seat, the rail extensionsbeing designed for entrance into said seat, and transverseconnecting-bolts entered through the splice-bar and rail-sections.

2. In a railjoint, a pair of rail-sections adapted for assembling inendwise relation and having their base-flanges terminated at a pointremote from their meeting ends to produce extensions, a splice-barcomprising a base and a pair of uprising transverse]y-spaced Verselythrough the splice-bar and rail-sec- IO tions.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

web portions of said extensions, said splicebar being provided at apoint coincident with the meeting ends of the rails with anescapeopening, and fastening members entered trans- Witnesses:

HENRY RABANUS, HAROLD S. Bnssnn.

i i 5 plates designed to receive between them the GUSTAVE ERICSON

